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Education Week's new "Quality Counts" survey offers a brand-new "Chance for Success Index."  But what exactly does it measure? 

"Disenfranchised" is a very powerful word.  It can be used to further equalize everyone or it can be used to provide everyone with equal opportunity.

One LAUSD teacher explains why Mayor Villaraigosa's attempted takeover will do nothing for children.

Texas schools are trailing much of the United States, and United States schools are trailing the rest of the world.  We must find a true solution now.

In New Jersey, Camden Public Schools just can't stop screwing up.

Walk into a classroom full of freshman high school students this semester and picture this: Almost a third of those students will drop out before graduation day.

Educating children: single-sex v co-ed; social v academic education?

Even if your school's test scores and graduation rates are higher than those in Cincinnati, there could still be a lot to learn from what the district has done.

In the waning days of 2006, our fearless ed school mole takes a look back at the semester. 

Ridgeview Classical Schools' high school has been named Colorado's top public school for the second year in a row.  The principal shares the secret of the school's success.